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What were the earliest tools used by early humans made from?
Stone
What is the name of one of the most well-known and most recent super continents caused by continental drift?
Pangea
What is the term for the particle in an atom with a positive charge?
Proton
What is the term for all of the water on and in the earth?
Hydrosphere
Give the names for each period of time: 10 years, 100 years, 1,000 years
Decade = 10 years
Century = 100 years
Millennium = 1,000 years
About how long ago was the universe created?
13-14 billion years ago
What are all rocks made of?
Minerals
Which states of matter have a fixed volume?
Liquid and Solid
What is the term for the outermost layers of the earth, including the upper mantle and crust?
Lithosphere
In the scientific method, what do you do after you form a question?
Research
How did our moon likely form?
What is the name of a plate boundary where two plates are sliding past each other?
Transform boundary
What was the first element to come into existence?
Hydrogen
What is the term for the OUTERmost layer of gases that surround Earth?
Exosphere
Adding salt to ice water lowers the freezing temperature to below 32 degrees.
Where were the earliest humans believed to have lived?
Ethiopia
What is the name for the imaginary line of longitude at 0 degrees?
What was the first element discovered through scientific experimentation?
Phosphorous
What is the term for a mass of ice slowly moving down a valley towards the sea?
Glacier
What does P.M. stand for, as it relates to time/the clock?
Post meridiem
What is the best name for the shape of the earth?
Oblate Spheroid (A sphere that bulges at the equator and slightly flattens at the top as it spins)
What do you call the horizontal sliding (tear force) that can affect buildings during earthquakes?
Shearing
What is the name for the phase change when a gas turns into a liquid?
Condensation
What is the term for a sea that it located near another sea?
Adjacent sea
What are the two properties of water that causes light objects (like paper clips) to float?
Cohesion and surface tension